WashingtonTimes.com – Jayne Blanchard
‘Pleasure’ can barely satisfy one
With a combination of Restoration comedy and modern raunch, “Measure for Pleasure” takes a below-the-pierced-bellybutton look at our urge to merge.
High- (the search for true love) and low- (the quest for sex) born impulses are explored with XXX-rated agility by playwright David Grimm in a production directed by Howard Shalwitz that at times recalls the libidinous heyday of the District’s once-sordid 14th Street strip rather than Penn Quarter’s cultural corridor.